This database provides descriptions of a large variety of satellite imagery, elevation models, land use and land cover maps as well as near real-time data products for different hazard types. You can search the database by data type or hazard as well as by other relevant factors including costs, temporal or spatial coverage, satellite or file types.
When you select a specific country under "spatial coverage", please note that the system will retrieve datasets that are exclusively carrying information for that specific country (and no other country). This means that global datasets, which include information for a particular country of interest as well as for other countries, will not be displayed. As a result, it is recommended to start with a global search.
The results of each search are connected to other items on the UN-SPIDER Knowledge Portal, such as the database of GIS and remote sensing software and the descriptions of natural hazards.
To support Member States in identifying and accessing relevant space-based information, UN-SPIDER also creates booklets that provide an overview of data sources listed on these pages and of particular interest to the countries it is providing technical advisory support to. The following booklets are available:
- Tunisia
- Ethiopia
- Cameroon
Costs: free with restrictions
Hazard: Climatological, Meteorological
Format: visualization of data (e.g. web GIS or real time monitoring)
Publisher: Climate Scale
Costs: free
Format: visualization of data (e.g. web GIS or real time monitoring)
Publisher: Jim Lee
Hazard: Harmful Algal Bloom
Format: export map
Publisher: Instituto del mar del Peru (IMARPE)
Costs: free
Hazard: Drought
Format: export data, export map, statistical data (e.g. graphs), visualization of data (e.g. web GIS or real time monitoring), web processing/cloud computing
Publisher: Joint Research Centre (JRC)
Costs: free
Hazard: Landslide
Format: export data, export map, visualization of data (e.g. web GIS or real time monitoring), web processing/cloud computing
Publisher: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Hazard: Pollution
Format: visualization of data (e.g. web GIS or real time monitoring)
Publisher: Copernicus
Costs: free with restrictions
Hazard: Drought, Earthquake, Epidemic, Flood, Mass Movement, Pollution, Severe Storm, Tsunami, Volcanic Eruption
Format: export data
Publisher: European Space Agency (ESA)
Costs: free
Hazard: Drought, Earthquake, Extreme Temperature, Flood, Forest Fire, Pollution, Severe Storm
Format: visualization of data (e.g. web GIS or real time monitoring)
Publisher: Google
Costs: free
Hazard: Drought
Format: export data, visualization of data (e.g. web GIS or real time monitoring)
Publisher: United States Geological Survey (USGS)
Costs: free
Format: export data
Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Costs: free
Format: export data
Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Costs: free
Hazard: Flood, Severe Storm
Format: export data, export map, visualization of data (e.g. web GIS or real time monitoring), web processing/cloud computing
Publisher: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Costs: free
Format: export data
Publisher: United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Costs: free
Hazard: Drought
Format: export data, visualization of data (e.g. web GIS or real time monitoring)
Publisher: United States Geological Survey (USGS)
Costs: free
Hazard: Drought, Earthquake, Epidemic, Extreme Temperature, Flood, Forest Fire, Insect Infestation, Mass Movement, Pollution, Severe Storm, Tsunami, Volcanic Eruption
Format: export data, export map, statistical data (e.g. graphs), visualization of data (e.g. web GIS or real time monitoring), web processing/cloud computing
Publisher: Data Basin
Costs: free
Hazard: Drought, Epidemic, Extreme Temperature, Flood, Forest Fire, Insect Infestation, Pollution, Severe Storm
Format: export data, export map, statistical data (e.g. graphs)
Publisher: West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL)
Costs: free
Hazard: Flood
Format: export data, statistical data (e.g. graphs), visualization of data (e.g. web GIS or real time monitoring)
Publisher: Technical University Munich (TUM)
Costs: free
Hazard: Severe Storm
Format: statistical data (e.g. graphs), visualization of data (e.g. web GIS or real time monitoring)
Publisher: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Costs: free
Format: export data, export map
Publisher: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
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